Worked on this for a good while. In which we pierce the mythology of South Florida's private passenger train, whose very future now depends on taxpayer money. Price train, public cash: how Brightline has been buoyed with taxpayer dollars www.miamiherald.com/news/local/a...

You can literally just think of a rich and influential person and type there name in and there are Epstein emails with them or about them

Thank you for this public service

LIES

1) Standards do have a lot of power. Definitely feels like too much sometimes. Every journalist has been thru battles. 2) Standards are there for very very good reasons 3) They are not the problem, they make the work better 99 percent of the time 4) Bad journalistic practices are the problem

a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers

BREAKING: We won! Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years. pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...

A timely lesson on why HOLDING THE LINE LEADS TO VICTORY

Literally the only thing that has to be done to stop an inevitable future shutdown from now on is reduce air travel for one single weekend and moderates will cave. That's the big lesson here, and trust me everyone in Washington is learning it.

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

The diagram for what Palantir does is like if Richard Scarry got super paranoid and did an Apocalypse picture book

Correct me if I'm wrong but he's talking as if every single unit in NYC new or old will see a rent freeze. But only select properties are rent stabilized, and those are the only ones that would have rent frozen. Therefore, new builds are probably not affected. Do I have that right?

The government is throwing tons of taxpayer money "at this idea that they can somehow collect and organize everything that they know about us and only use it for good,” EFF’s Cindy Cohn told @NOTUS.org. “We ought to be very, very skeptical of this.” www.notus.org/immigration...

In Italy labor unions helped start a network of left-leaning news/music radio stations that have become some of the staples of public information in much of the country. They now run on a donation / ads model, but initial investment was from labor. I think about this often.

It's really cool that some of the original sit-inners were present for the unveiling of this memorial. www.oklahoman.com/picture-gall...

“.. in a group Signal chat, .. he wrote in part: ‘I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.’” @reuters.com #Chicago www.reuters.com/world/us/bor...

Lol

For no real reason I listened to JFK's inaugural address yesterday, where he lays out the moral foundation for USAID, one of his biggest legacies. Seeing it simply killed, and all the deaths that have resulted with the program shutting down, leaves a generational stain on this country.

Ouch

As enough AI is trained on AI slop, once the resulting content gets further and further from the OG human hands, as myriad errors are compounded, the AI systems will ultimately undermine themselves. The end will be a massive "intelligence" failure, and humans that rely on it will be stupider.

In case you would like to turn off the default AI Overview on your devices tenbluelinks.org

The cheapening of 9/11 to score political points bc you don't like someone's policies on transit and child care is just emotionally beyond me as a US citizen

Tonight is a legitimate holy shit moment for US politics

Hello from Miami, where a non-Latina Democrat is by far the frontrunner in a crowded mayor's race. The city hasn't elected a Dem for mayor since 1993. Same for a non-Cuban. Runoff election is on December 9th, and it's expected to start garnering national attention. www.wlrn.org/government-p...

Love election day for giving me remarkable insight into voters. "I voted yesterday in downtown!" (There was no voting yesterday in downtown) "What's the biggest issue in Miami right now?" "There are no issues, everything is good." ... "He helps us get food so I am voting for him." Politics!

Not enough people are talking about how Trump and the Republicans are trying to privatize the Tennessee Valley Authority, and how Right-wing megadonor Lee Beaman is a Trump nominee for one of the vacant board seats. www.bizjournals.com/nashville/ne...

By Tom's logic the point of the game is to win, not to do something to help people's lives, but to win while providing nothing in terms of solving real problems in the world. "Centrism" does not exist. The concept is an ideological void that motivates no one in any way, bc it stands for nothing.

Best series in at least 20 years, pretty sure this got a lot of people hyped about baseball all over again, much needed, five out of five

I'd like to report a treason

Only option I could find to tune into Game 7 tonight is on AM radio en español. Protect AM radio.

This graph never fails to be shocking: "The US has experienced the earliest and greatest slowdown in life expectancy improvements among higher-income countries, reported Eileen Crimmins. “We have horrible life expectancy—and it’s getting worse and worse”" www.prb.org/resources/se...

The argument is that foreign workers take jobs from Americans for cheaper. But then, hiring American means state universities will have to pay more. Which means higher taxes. Which they say they don't want. Which would mean cuts. Which ... Just trying to follow the logic to it all.

Sometimes I think of my old neighbor, a nice old lad from New Zealand who lived in London during Thatcher, squatted a flat and hated her guts etc.. but stressed to me that it was only bc of her that "some fights that needed to happen, happened" in those years. Feels like we're getting there now.

What's happening in Sudan sounds like pure unadulterated evil

I did see Trump people talking about the consolidation problem, also suggesting it's only happened bc of "regulations" and not lax regulations on mergers. Kinda incoherent but also quite close to the truth. Gives a hint that they might actually try to do something about it thru big government.

the Trump FCC this week voted to completely neuter rules requiring that your Broadband ISP be transparent about the speed and limitations of your broadband connection at the point of sale, which will make it easier for them to rip you off:

“If everyone has to cobble together their own constellation of individual creators, $5 at a time? That’s not a media ecosystem. That’s a privatized patchwork of tip jars.” 🎯

Outright insanity that someone can be this good

Dems did focus on middle class things, but they did so indirectly. They passed laws that gave businesses and local governments money to maybe some day improve things for the middle class. It needed more than 4 years to execute, and now it's all being reversed. People saw very few direct gains.

The level of Islamophobia we're seeing in this country right now is atrocious. Also, this take is the worst. When Florida talked about opening these gov/religion floodgates ALL of the civil rights groups warned that ALL religious schools will have equal rights, hint hint. They did it anyways.

I don't want to overdo my personal hobby horse, but this is an example of "sheriff policing mentality" over progressive urban police (both bad but in different ways).

What tf is take him "seriously" supposed to mean? The guy was terrible, just awful. He did give Zohran Mamdani to the US tho, so you can debate if that was a good or a bad thing I guess.

Why did Indiana University attack and cut its own student newspaper? Well, in a twist of irony any English professor would call clichéd, it turns out IU did it because they were angry about the students' reporting on a FIRE report naming IU as the worst public university for free speech in the US.

Almost every major news story this week is about how the entire economy is now gambling, scams, bribes and theft.

This weekend, the UN Cybercrime Treaty opens for signatures, and the stakes for global digital freedom have never been higher. States must refuse to sign the Convention.

Just published an entire book on this issue in Florida (link in bio) and it is maddening and wholly predictable how states are still using it to exclude people from voting. All for (under false pretenses, btw.. most impacted are white, not Black) partisan purposes.

ICE officer arrested for drunk driving in the Florida Keys with two kids in his backseat. He repeatedly asks if one of the arresting officers is Haitian, and says he might have to deport him. "I’m gonna run some checks when I get back." www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

The Trump/ Milei friendship is so wild because they are actually ideologically opposite, but they have convinced themselves that they are actually the same, bc vibes. Milei's playbook? Budget surplus. Trump's playbook? Budget deficits. Milei? Free trade. Trump? Tariffs. www.wsj.com/world/americ...

Florida’s Social Studies standards are getting another update next month. No, those terrible African American History standards will stay, but there’s a huge update to our Anti-Communism education. This is just one page.